US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus to decouple downhole tool speed from conveyance tools" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,603, issued on June 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Methods and apparatus to decouple downhole tool speed from conveyance tools" was invented by Sudhir Gupta (Houston) and Edward Harrigan (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wellbore logging apparatus include a positioning mechanism that couples one or more well logging devices included in a well logging tool to a downhole tractor. The positioning tool allows the logging tools to be moved at a different rate of travel through a wellbore compared to the rate of travel of the downhole tractor through the wellbore."

The patent was filed on Ju...